against crime and corruption that's because as artie's policy reports many afghan police are about the acts. abdulrahim used to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been put there himself but the former army commander denies the charges he insists he never swayed from the right side of the law. we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found narcotics heroin in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drug smuggling. by himself is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to a recent us congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs.

when i graduated as a policeman i was doing i kept quiet about for about two years all the other policemen here knew about it quite a few police who were drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. pullet afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but this is opium. this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. yes it's true when i joined

a few years ago lots of guards were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good that you get it and they don't have enough so they are not joining the produce truth out of the people join the police to solve themselves but the ministry of cantona katic insists it's now got a hold on the problem before the police can become a police he get tested he will have certain tests before coming to before going to the exercise part of our becoming a police sergeant. this is something that has been developed an army level but questions remain what if some of those fighting afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside

these four walls is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell of members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over card for this year are teen preaching he was in kabul. u.n. experts warn that higher opium prices could persuade afghan farmers to cultivate even more opium wheat main alternative crop for farmers has fallen in price while poppy eradication is an all time low but result may of zali a spokesman for the carter narcotics ministry insists that growing drugs is against the afghan people's beliefs. but the news is positive poppy production has been slashed for forty eight percent as compared to the previous year but i don't agree with some of the u.n. . claim that it was a because of the bad weather or so it could have been the case in some provinces to

go it was very much successful to the public awareness campaign and we sent a positive message and the people of afghanistan know that the poppy cultivation is a bad figure on them and it's something that. we afghans this is not our culture this is against this is against the basic principles of. our religion so something that is against our religion something which is a dangerous and he will phenomenon something that is supporting terrorism and we get as an afghan affected by that we never support. cuti and we made a pretty hard commitment on that to get rid of this problem. well nato mission in afghanistan is now facing a new obstacle pakistan has closed a vital supply route for the u.s. led war effort across the border one hundred fuel tankers and trucks of been stopped from crossing the fronts here it is believed to be in response to

a nato helicopter raid in which three pakistani soldiers were killed and three others wounded now the airlines denies its aircraft and pakistani territory and says the reports are being investigated the u.s. has been stepping up missile strikes against suspected militants hiding in pakistan and there have been several cross border helicopter raids in the last week pakistan condemned the strikes calling them a violation of international law pakistani political expert. told us here at our see that the u.s. led coalition has been unable to involve the pashtun tribes living on both sides of the border to join the peace so. you need to expect that box and could go actually more further ahead and completely shut down needed supplies because there is a strong feeling that box down is getting though that the bad side of the stick we didn't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course pakistani interests are not being looked after or

respected by our friends in afghanistan and if this continues you might as well see a complete you have to understand something tribes of course are divided by this this manufactured border and and in order to completely stop the push to ones from any of the tribes to really help each other during this war in afghanistan there's only one way to do that and that is to bring political reconciliation in afghanistan so basically what i'm saying is and what box any officials have been. telling american officials but not in a forceful way that you need to resolve the problem of isolating the push to get them out of power in kabul they are of course angry about this and what you see the resistance that you see the afghan taliban whatever they're doing. part of that is an expression of. anger add to excluding them from power in kabul so unless you bring them into the power circle the push tools will keep fighting and it is unfair in this situation to expect pockets to completely clamp down on the push to an

tribesmen whether they are or whether they are pakistani pushers throughout the past eight years of course boxen has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside have done is done box down the ideas box any suggestions box on the input were completely ignored and in eight years of course we've seen the situation go from what from bad to worse in afghanistan i don't think it is possible that you could do and you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong pakistani involvement. and that was pakistani political expert. well still to come here on r t meeting with no what do you and speakers without a voice tell you why over one hundred nations were shunned by the media and other delegates at the un general assembly that's coming up in just a few minutes plus. this feels very very strange the story is very cold and also heavy they're doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary find out why people are asking to be buried alive how it feels and

what they get out of. well too explosive device is equivalent to at least sixty kilos of t.n.t. have been diffused in russia stuff in a poll region to nearby buildings in a school were evacuated for safety reasons the first bomb in a car was supposed to have been set off by the vehicles alarm system the second bomb was nearby and it's believed it was targeted at police officers who would respond to the first explosion authorities also discovered the body of a man in the car some reports claim he was a member of an illegal arms group others say he was beaten to death and then shoved into the car. now let's get to some other stories making headlines around the world this hour and a two policemen have been killed and three civilians wounded in baghdad after an armed gang tried to rob a bank the attackers used bombs to storm the building before being foiled by

officers in a gunfight two suspected robbers were caught and the neighborhood has been sealed police search for attackers official say it's unclear whether the gang has links to any insurgent groups. says controversy in india over a court decision to split control over a holy site in the northern ancient town of. the main disputed section where a mosque was torn down in one nine hundred ninety two. has been allocated to hindu swell muslims will be in charge of other parts security is being tightened across the region as authorities fear unrest in a town that seen two thousand killed in clashes over the last two decades the muslim community already says it will appeal the verdict. north korea has published a photo thought to be of the country's heir apparent for the first time it's the only picture released of kim jong un which is up to date he was appointed to two

key party british ns earlier this week it's being viewed as a gradual transfer of power due to the ailing health of his father kim jong il. many e.u. countries are trying to get back to normal after protests and general strikes affected dozens of major cities tens of thousands took to the streets demonstrating against budget cuts in spain traffic was blocked and many passengers were left stranded in madrid with two thirds of all flights grounded. in high level united nations panel will hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the democratic republic of the congo that comes after the release of a preliminary un report into the rape of hundreds of civilians in the north kivu province two months ago survivors will have a chance to share their experiences as part of efforts to improve treatment and support. for an american actor and hollywood legend tony curtis has died at the

age of eighty five he passed away at his home in nevada after a cardiac arrest curtis was best known for his roles in movies such as spartacus and alongside marilyn monroe in some like it hot he starred in more than one hundred and twenty films during a career that spanned six decades. well the world's media has been accused of overlooking smaller nations this year's u.n. general assembly in new york while certainly two speeches grab the media's attention most fail to make the headlines marina portnoy reports on why so many delegates were left talking to an empty room. an international circus of political power. public stress for new yorkers. reporters secret service and barricades three signs of world leaders are crammed inside one building for the annual united nations general assembly debate. this diplomatic gathering

provides more than one hundred ninety countries an opportunity to promote their foreign policy agenda but generally it's always the same voices now is the time to build the trust is dominating the states in identifying those responsible in the september eleventh attacks journalists flew in from all over the world to cover this seven day event with people who have endured too much more but once the richest and strongest finished pledging their promises. the press prematurely concluded their coverage you're. going to hear what you see what. you know you see that. mainstream media pull the plug on this international story friday evening with more than one hundred and twenty nations yet to speak abandoned by live trucks and most police presence nations like congo in mongolia were left addressing empty our torrijos by monday when cuba's spoke of

suffering under us and forgoes camera outside the un along to a tourist between two thousand and twenty five hundred journalists were accredited at the un for the general assembly debate and when u.s. president barack obama was here the room i'm standing in was packed when he laughed he took all the media attention with him now only a handful of journalists are left to report about all the other countries that are addressing the international body the poorest leaders took to the podium campaigning for climate change and the scene inside the u.n. media center spoke volumes less than ten reporters and girl. but you can school overflowing with recycled rubbish. today also reflects that the un suddenly doesn't draw as much attention. you know global governance seems to have so many challenges to address. to some extent

a lot of difficulties addressing those challenges first maybe garnering respect from its host country nearly seventy percent of americans think the u.n. does a lousy job in solving global problems maybe they should move it somewhere else maybe governors island where nobody would be affected by you know. convenience for everyone however most of the world criticizes americans for neglecting to understand problems we only know what we hear we don't know exactly what's going. on and that's good or bad i mean. we should know we should we should be you know the same for everyone if not the united nations may remain a place where everyone continues to talk and neglects to listen up or not you know party in new york. the summer months prove fraud and fatal time for russia this year hit by a record breaking heat wave raging wildfires and choking smog the country's emergencies minister has been speaking to us here at sea and says

a number of lessons have got to be learned. of course we analyze all our work we exchange experience and advice with our western colleagues i would like everyone to realize that such disasters are not nation specific catastrophes know no borders customs nationalities or religion this is perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from this situation we should learn to consolidate our efforts to join forces to give a helping hand to each other and to do our job efficiently and that's a very nice. and you can watch our full interview with russia's emergencies minister in around ten minutes time right here on r.t. well people are always searching for new ways to relieve the strains and stresses of everyday life in russia after a group of therapists has come up with an extreme method to overcome your problems by burying people alive they claim but twenty minutes of it can change your outlook

on life or despite grave doubts about it when to give it a try. above ground there are a few signs of life below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fear is pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but it stream therapy. is no good the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting us and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or what i want to come down to simply no more than a place like this these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in lighting meant practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. this is the most effective and powerful method overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear anything nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep

inside their minds. a burial costs around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function that they're thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under that volunteers breathe through this chewed the organizers a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home but i was told that our we have to be able to get the personal very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about these things. until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia and that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now and given this debris through which i'm told that we monitoring at all times so

when i stop and all i have to do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as they were here this feels very very strange the soil is very cold and also heavy i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very ready to see the light of day again. thank you. one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again either bennett r.t. moscow. well don't forget we are also online twenty four hours a day with plenty of stories for you to explore and here are some of what you'll find right now at our. amazing footage coming here some people.

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hello and welcome to the business bulletin investors are once again focusing on the poor state of european banks the government of island has announced it will be taking a majority stake in the country's second largest bank as part of a fresh bailed out it's also revealed the price tag for bailing out all of its banks will be more than fifty billion dollars this will raise its deficit to thirty two percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and ten meanwhile moody's investor services has lowered spain's top credit rating by one notch this puts additional pressure on the country's government as it prepares to pass the most or steer budget in three decades it comes as the belt tightening measures imposed by the european governments provoked a massive protests across europe. concerns over public finances are also feeding into the currency markets this week the brazilian finance minister said there was a covert currency war taking place as countries sought to devalue their way out of debt and joining me now to discuss all these issues is chris we've just aural said

thank you very much for joining me now first see chris what exactly does he mean by a currency war always referring to is a deliberate action by governments to weaken their currencies in order to increase to competitors of this of their own industry in direct sports in order to try and boost the revival of their economies so basically a government actively trying to devalue their way out of debt about being yes i think you can certainly say that some governments are doing down to what we saw for example the japanese government taking action to weaken the yen because they feared words compared to the chinese government of course is resolutely refusing to appreciate the one so effectively keeping at a low level in order to sustain growth in their economy and in other countries particularly of course the focus on the us were u.s. dollars being quite weak. and the accusation is that it's been done very deliberately in order to help boost the economic recovery in the u.s.

at the expense of other countries such as brazil and perhaps such as europe now if we look at quantitative easing one of the problems created by this method of increasing the quiddity within an economy well yeah and we expect to hear more of that today in fact and us as the fed chairman bernanke he addresses congress is expected to outline another round of easing to come no doubt has the effect of increasing the money supply in a country that then we can stick currency which can help boost growth which is why governments are doing it but the long term effect of the medium term effect is that it does increase the money supply and therefore it risks huge inflationary pressures down the road and this is what economists are particularly afraid of is that you know once to survival takes hold perhaps next year or maybe you wouldn't even months were gone for a minute to massive inflation problems which could then halt that revival in the meantime of course the specific concern concern is about what we call stagflation where you actually have no growth but you have inflation and that you like that's what held to the japanese economy back for more than

a decade you know in the ninety's so do you think governments will actually find a solution that could work you know cross borders or is this going to escalate i think it's inevitably going to escalate we may actually see some of that as the next g. twenty summit which is due to take place in korea in november i think currency and currency wars if you like to use the brazilian term i think certainly will be on the agenda i think that governments really don't have any other option and they don't have any other strategies that they are increasingly resorting to try and use their currency to get out of this problem so we're going to hear an awful lot more about currency battles in two thousand and eleven now if we turn to the well it's down against the euro it's down against the dollar it's not performing very well why is that well investors are effectively sidelined russia since the mid summer i think since the drought the smog. concerns to that's raised about rising inflation and we've already had a number of growth forecast reductions from government so investors really don't

see russia as having a strong domestic story right now they're much prefer to focus on parts of the economy emerging market world that do have strong domestic stories such as brazil india china and turkey in particular and in eastern europe russia has been ignored you can see it in the equity market it's no starting to weigh on the downside from global emerging markets and the same with the currency markets so i believe it's a temporary move i think you know russia now is is very cheap even relative to the weak fundamentals we have to go up side so i think once we get turned a corner a big upside we probably need to see more confidence in global markets before we see that upside and i believe it will come strong before the end of the year so what's a safe investment at the moment do you think gold is gold be only the only safe but gold and silver certainly have been amongst the best performers this year i think apart from that you're looking at the currencies of traditionally safe countries such as the swiss franc perhaps the norwegian kroner but but really it's very

difficult to point to anything else you know the these traditional havens are now very much to the fore and they are this is what's attracting a lot of fun flows and why they're performing so well this year thank you very much chris that was chris we've achieved just a just. and now let's take a quick look at how the equity markets are currently performing u.s. stocks are on the rise in early trading following a bigger than expected drop in the number of jobless claims and a strong touching manage this report. is giving a lift to the european markets favorite college off the news about the bank bailouts an island close to sell off and trade the on the back to one percent this hour. on a similar story here in russia with the markets gaining in the late afternoon trade for my second one thanks to energy majors also making gains that snapped up one triple just percent for. telecom is still on the slide down along one percent this hour. and about sort of from the business team at this hour but of course you can

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global financial headlines. live from the russian capital. stores now afghanistan's opium production is slashed in half but its value goes up with. a u.n. report says the decline in supply is due to a disease affecting the country's poppy fields. pakistan blocks nato efforts in afghanistan major supply route. in response to the killing of its soldiers by. the alliance denies the claims and has begun its own investigation. and smaller nations are left to talk to empty seats at the close of the un general

assembly in new york raising questions over its ability to tackle global issues the us has been criticized for being a. majority of its media left along with those considered the most important speak . well for many russians the summer of two thousand and ten will be remembered for the scorching heat massive wildfires suffocating small. countries emergencies minister. on the lessons to be. thank you. because putting in the rest of his special version of hello mr shaggy sank you for your time this summer russia faced great for.